Mouton Rothschild unveils their 2009 label.

British artist Anish Kapoor has been added to the list of modern artists, including: Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Marc Chagall, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud to be commissioned to produce a work for the Mouton Rothschild label. Mr Kapoor was born in Mumbai in 1954, but has resided in the UK since 1972. He won the Turner Prize in 1991, but is probably best known by Londoners for his 2002 commission, Marsyas, which filled the vast Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern.

Anish Kapoor is described as being ‘renowned for his enigmatic sculptural forms that permeate physical and psychological space. Kapoor's inventiveness and versatility have resulted in works ranging from powdered pigment sculptures and site-specific interventions on wall or floor, to gigantic installations both in and outdoors. Throughout, he has explored what he sees as deep-rooted metaphysical polarities: presence and absence, being and non-being, place and non-place and the solid and the intangible’. http://www.tate.org.uk/

The Chateau’s press release described the commission as, ‘at once austere and flamboyant, the gouache he has created for Mouton Rothschild 2009 expresses the fertile thrust of plant life, the result of an intense encounter between matter and light’.